Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
Annie Dillard
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. -
I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. -
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. -
I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that. -
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.
More quotes by Annie Dillard
- The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
- It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
- People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.